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Status: Mathematics (2016 - September)

This is rather an eccentric activity, partly an attempt to exorcise some ancient demon – the rather bruising experience of reading mathematics at King’s College Cambridge back in the mid 1970’s.

However, any modern educated person should be reasonably up to date with the mathematical sciences, and statistical and probability theory are essential tools for evaluating evidence, and are useful in Bridge! If only advanced mathematics wasn’t such a difficult subject.

This project is diverging from Mathematics per se to the Philosophy of Mathematics and other related subjects. For instance, Philosophy of Mathematics features in Philosophy of Religion by providing an analogy or model of the sort of necessary existence that God is supposed to have.

Project Status, end-September 2016

During the 2015/16 academic year, I planned to spend an hour a week in the first three quarters, though nothing in the final quarter. However I did next to nothing throughout the year.

Consequently, I spent 8 hours in the 2015/16 academic year on this project. That’s 19% of the planned effort. Overall, about 0.3% of my Project effort in the Year was directed towards this project as against 2% planned.

To provide focus for higher priority projects, I do not plan to spend any time on this project in the near future. Actions will feature on the Summary_Task_List1, and I do not intend to produce any more editions of this report until this time next year.

To keep the project ticking over I may continue with2 the following, as background activities:-